It's possibly backed greater than 1:1. Tether likely cleaned up their operations over the past few years, but the "Tether Truthers" are still anxious about fraud. Even more transparency is welcome of course.
> Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Howard Lutnick on CNBC:
> "I'm a big fan of this stablecoin called Tether...I hold their treasuries. So I keep their treasuries, and they have a lot of treasuries. They're over $90 billion now, so I'm a big fan of Tether."